thousands of gather the crowds there in attendance there demanding president mubarak stand down with immediate effect. all right now let's get more details on this because lottie's policy of waiting for us in cairo hi paula so anti-government protesters hope it's the last day of president mubarak's rule and by some estimates over a million people have come out on the streets of cairo is this likely do you think to be the day that will barack actually does step down. well that's certainly the wish of the as you say more than one million protesters who've come out on the streets across egypt i mean the focal point is in tough square which is downtown cairo which is where these pictures are from but there are demonstrations happening in alexandria in suez in a number of other different cities the rallying call is the same this is a protest to say mubarak's d. day they want him gone by sunset which is just a few hours away now they have so far been no sign of those promo barwick demonstrators this doesn't mean that all concerns for violence have been abated but

we're certainly seeing a lot a lot of excitement out of the streets in a lot of a karma situation the army is maintaining a presence on the periphery a short time ago i'm a musette who is the secretary general of the arab league did attend the protests in tahrir square people there welcoming him they were also present would give him back in mom's who were calling for calm they also said the army was with god because it had promised not to state fire and get involved in these demonstrations with me i have professor i meant nice guy me from cairo university thank you very much for joining us do you think mubarak will step down today we hope for that do you see i was born forty three years ago and now you've course lived in the time of president. or is it is so there then president mubarak and i can tell you this is a big deal in my country's history we hope that he will listen to the voice of wisdom and he will step down and leave the office today what do you make of the

american involvement and there's a lot of american diplomatic activity with them speaking now to almost solomon and other top egyptian officials is there a sense that they have betrayed a man who they've backed for thirty years no it's politics you know i mean for thirty years we have the same gentleman same faces same policy ok and what i think now what the american trying to do right now is to see. deal with the air force and actually work to the youth of the april twenty fifth did you try now to steal their victory and claim it to themselves but you know it's the effort and the blood and the screaming and tiredness of the young people of egypt why is the american administration not supporting mubarak anymore because simply i think most mubarak has lost his credibility the entire nation actually thinking that is time to

go so no credibility no support i mean what are the american going to support nothing what does the average egyptian make of america's involvement because they're still so involved in what's going on in internally gyptian affairs it's totally rejected and people actually into his square and every single part of the country calling in the foreign powers no matter what i mean without naming any particular power to keep away it's our affairs and we'd like to keep it our in our affairs do you think that other regimes in the in the area all concerned because they some of them have been backed by the united states and here they've seen america turn its back on a former friend is there a cause for concern among them yes ma'am immediately started actually action in algeria as you can see the president. has already the has plans to cancel the state of emergency a raid of the cabinet has been changed already couple of days ago in our men jordan

and now what's happening also in yemen is an answer so yes of course there is a big reflection in the entire region of the middle east do you think these demonstrations are going to spread i mean we're already seeing them spread but just how far is that influence not quite sure i can tell actually but you mentioned before that the motor is already trying to talk with and negotiate with the people with the protesters in tahrir square i hear it also the news that the minister of defense is over. there the field marshal is already there trying to cut kind of deals in my opinion the trying to keep the dignity of mubarak out with dignity but you know protestors i believe are not you going to stay there overnight how involved is the muslim brotherhood is this their demonstration. to be honest the they would nod to the. do you buy you nears or i mean the leaders of the the protesters they are there you can see them you can see they are level of

organization they are kind of they are they are there but actually they are not number one in the protests but are they concerned that there is an islamic element an extremist element to these demonstrations and that that can spillover across the middle east no this is a big mistake actually i wish the media world not followed bad but i wish personally from the media the international media to look closely and carefully not that bad now now but you read each option politics how do you read the situation resolving itself as i mentioned before now there is a serious try sort of deal of late in mr mubarak go out leave the office with the minimum limit of dignity and respect and we agree of that but actually he has to go down today but that's certainly the rallying call we're hearing from protesters mubarak has to leave today but among those protesters those that are spoke to about that involvement in the international community some saying

that the united states has been hypocritical in supporting an ally such as mubarak and then today turning its back on him my colleague laura emmet filed this report from england in terms of what has been what is perceived by people here u.s. meddling in egyptian affairs. president obama started in my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful. it must be peaceful and it must begin now and then faithfully one after the other one the other governments followed suit and . these democratic change has to start now. it needs to happen now the growth of freedom and democracy in egypt and it seems the theme was contagious as the call for a new egypt spreads uncontrolled across the western mass media there were three hundred and fifty thousand people in the streets of cairo protesting for democracy this is

how democracy happens but what right do u.s. and european leaders have to get involved in what's essentially domestic unrest about dissatisfaction with a ruler who cares what they want in egypt certainly not these demonstrators at the egyptian embassy in london they supported you can read you for such a long time and in fact they are they give the regime and now they're talking about democracy and respect the from the right side of this and so obama's speech. could be sitting on the fence so much. i mean it is not the same going over what are you just saying as we experience for a transition where is this peaceful transition there are shades of past conflicts in the world's attitude to the situation in egypt according to william spring he campaigns against nato aggression the gypped as a sovereign state but what they have always done the west they've used this humanitarian or good moves they've said oh we can intervene in yugoslavia we can

intervene in baidoa russia we can put sanctions for example this week they put sanctions on us on the grounds that they in directions were in some way invalid or there were some irregular as well they're all sufficient irregularities in the british elections without your knowledge you opinion putting sanctions on. it's a complete turnaround for the western world. which is always supported hosni mubarak is a force for stability in the region the us gave him one and a half billion dollars a year for his armed forces alone and it was western support that kept mubarak in power betraying an inherent misunderstanding of the way society operates according to chatham house the way regimes like mubarak survive. is by making themselves useful. to the west so they have to convince the world that. if they leave it'll be the muslim brotherhood. in egypt. it's the worst case

scenario so the. minute you can see beyond never really fall and all of which suggests that western countries should stand back and let the egyptian people exercise their sovereignty the president of the united states would call to move immediately and. to make changes as if we are the fifty first state of the united states we are not trying to play a role in egypt's future is a dangerous day in the west and leaders hosni mubarak enjoyed strong support from america and co for many is that now at the first sign of trouble their support is conspicuous in its absence this sends a message to friends and foes alike in the region when the going gets tough don't count on us a message that's likely to further destabilize an already deeply unstable part of the world's a majority. well you know mohammed who's our chief analyst as

a policy dot com he says that the u.s. seems to be afraid of losing its influence in egypt. if we pay attention to the rhetoric of the u.s. they'd like you to believe that they're not doing anything but somehow the mubarak regime gets their hands on an awful lot of excess cash to buy one point five billion dollars worth of weaponry and all the weapons the tanks the tear gas that you see used against egypt and people to try to quell this revolution is in fact funded by american tax dollars not to mention the fact that the pro mubarak counter-revolutionary force that just happens to appear from the most egypt's thirty million impoverished people probably was paid off with dollar bills so we have to really look at the fact that egypt has been a functioning american empire a client state for our well over thirty years and the simple fact of the matter is is that there is no more you know polar power in the world america is going to try to bargain away whereby they have until september to adapt to influence to try to

use propaganda to try to use covert and overt operations as they have since one nine hundred fifty three in the middle east to shape things in their direction but it apparently seems as though this strategic blunder of entering into a war of attrition in iraq and afghanistan is now starting to weigh on the world and the world is going to have to let people in the muslim world decide for themselves with regard to government or to economics with regards to the way that they live their lives. here on our latest edition of crossfire. in egypt could affect. a whole. u.s. lawmakers are pushing for

a renewal of the patriot act which allows security agencies to go through private telephone and e-mail records the majority of congressmen insist the law defends the public from a threat of terror but as aussies guy nature can reports many people view it as a violation of civil liberties. major provisions of the patriot act about to expire are due to be extended by lawmakers brought in by the bush administration as an emergency anti terror measure the act gives sweeping powers to these orders to spy on people but the u.s. senate's judiciary committee is in a real hurry to rubber stamp rather than discuss and debate the far reaching measures they expire in three weeks and i think there is not time really to go through. a major change in those there was no time either for real debate back in two thousand and one when the patriot act was adopted weeks after the nine eleven attacks according to congressman dennis

kucinich the lawmakers hadn't even read what they were passing what happened once the patriot act was passed the fourth amendment rights to. unreasonable searches to be protected from unreasonable search and seizure just thrown out the congressman was one of the very few who openly oppose the act we have a challenge to the essence of our democracy with the very existence of the patriot act and of course its name the patriot act who would want to oppose the patriot act because it makes it sound as though you're a patriot if you're for it but actually. the idea of tying patriotism to destruction of cherished constitutional privileges needs to shelf to be challenged although lawmakers insisted that the patriot act would be used just for anti-terrorism federal authorities have used its powers far more broadly the senate's intelligence watchdog found that without any judicial checks

government employees journalist anti-war activists and others had been spied on over the last six months more than twenty anti-war activists around the country have been subpoenaed after the f.b.i. raided homes in chicago and minneapolis reportedly using patriot act powers to round up american citizens there's ample reason to believe that when you create massive databases of politically potentially very useful information about both innocent and guilty people eventually someone with access to that information will misuse it and we see all the time how people who become politically engaged are politically threatening are subject to disclosures of sensitive information about them the patriot act allows security services to lawfully spied by wiretapping large groups of phone numbers and monitoring e-mail addresses in ball instead of meeting a warrant each time the national security agency has even intercepted bill clinton's private e-mails later said to be an inadvertent mistake among millions of other

pieces of correspondence snoop gone a privacy watchdog suggest that since two thousand and one the f.b.i. has intelligence investigations have compromised the civil liberties of american citizens far more frequently and to a greater extent than was previously assumed supporters of the act say it's needed because of the terrorist threats that we've had thirty six stored in terrorist attacks since nine eleven well do you know for a fact that it was thanks to the patriot act that the attacks were prevented it's difficult to say that for sure because when you look at court records and other documents that are available you can you say in these cases. there were cases where patriot act like tools would be useful and so we can suspect that they were useful and some of them congressman could sanish says the act is supported in congress to a climate of fear so you have a whole nation of fearful people promoting fear you cannot have

a democracy if the democracy rest upon fear you cannot walk in faith in freedom and fear at the same time americans have a great deal of respect for their founding fathers and one of those wise men benjamin franklin said quote those who give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety and it seems that piece of advice is largely ignored by today's america reporting from washington. twenty minutes past the. news blogs stories on our website. and here are some of the items you can right now when it comes to. travel it's always a good idea. also . to space exploration and everything in between take a look at

a curious. thing. a series of national. society divided by. the west east of the country hold very different views on what it is to be ukrainian and. reports often expressed in violence. an innocent joke or a deliberate disick ration recently activist of a ukrainian radical nationalist party cooked eggs and bacon on the eternal flame in kiev's memorial park a monument to the red army soldiers who died liberating the country from the nazis

rather deputy. sees little surprise as to why this happens in one day ukraine. the nation was brainwashed by five years of you sugar's rule actions like these are an attempt to write off the sacrifice his country made to be liberated from the nazis in the resulting pro fascist propaganda like the rehabilitation of nazi collaborators like you here bitch and moan there the two nationalist army leaders step on monday to end the mansion here which were made heroes of ukraine by former president you shouldn't their groups are seen by many as nazi collaborators first they fought the german invasion then turned against the soviet troops at times using gruesome tactics against civilians the former president's decision split open ukraine ideologically now with victory on the court which in office the author proved in court that been there had no right to bear the heroic accolade. the laws

that only a citizen of ukraine can become a hero and been there wasn't a ukrainian citizen but the law doesn't matter to some people here they believe the really crane is in the west of the country and they don't want to find any compromise. the court's decision caused a massive public outcry in the west of ukraine and the nationalist hot bed from renaming the streets after been there to raising funds for new monuments people in this part of the country stressed that their loyalty to been there will stand firm . on darryl walls is and will be our hero this is what we believe in and no court decision will ever change. but at some point words turned into actions nationalist wings organized a series of extremist attacks this summer during russian back to arc's visit to ukraine they bomb the church and have also vandalized soviet era monuments and the country is left to wonder what reaction would follow should and no other

controversial world war two ukrainian would be deprived of fuze hero status on february the sixteenth courtney key it will decide whether a man should care which will also be stripped of his medal and while experts say he is most likely to follow been there as footsteps they say no matter the decision ukraine will still remain divided over its perception of the past. see reporting from kiev ukraine. if you will with r.t. let's check out some other international stories making headlines this hour. leaders are meeting in brussels to discuss the ongoing european debt crisis turmoil in egypt and energy security the twenty seven nations are hoping to agree on new ways of managing the economic situation although no decisions will be taken until a meeting next month a number of anon a binding agreement specifically in matters of energy are expected to be made and it's been confirmed that europe is working closely with egypt's vice president over the ongoing tensions that. burma's parliament has named outgoing prime minister

painter saying as the country's new president after fifty years of military rule the first civilian leader will appoint his ministers in accordance with the constitution which came into force on monday painted a sane is a former general who served as prime minister from october two thousand and seven but stepped down in order to run as a civilian candidate and the election. let's get into the world of finance with sharon. hello welcome to our business program. inflation in russia has already climbed two point four percent in the first month of two thousand and eleven exceeding analyst expectations many experts say should this trend continue inflation could reach double digits by the end of the year i'm now joined live by alexander models of chief economist for russia and c.i.s. countries at h.s.b.c. to discuss this in more detail. well as i understand you for for joining us what if

the. i was only with inflation growing at such a rapid rate some analysts say that they're predicting double digits by the end of the year do you believe this is likely and why well actually it's pretty much what determine through it all see inflation double digits as soon as and of this quarter or the second quarter obviously the latest of a question mark is in what direction inflation will go off the fed's what is a call for inflation after reaching double digits real dicks away to single digits by wheeled around the rug growing risk that this might not happen because of rising inflation expectations. and the central bank has decided to keep their refinancing rate and other policy rates unchanged how long do you think they can resist raising them well it's a question or central bank you know my personal opinion is that single bank or what the economists say stand behind the curve of you know what's reacts to passively to grow inflation risks while over estimated three six two can only grow with you see

in russia. and finally the oil prices have surpassed the hundred dollar mark and we're headed towards another in your opinion are we headed towards another potential bubble well if you speak about russian markets already economy has getting quite store momentum and the parent leo prices about one hundred dollars per barrel will be stimulative photographic so ration before i expect most of surprises from a good moment for months of the russian economy of course and second property is fear and indeed we may see ourselves in the situation often of a bubble or overheated and book on the me and this is a novel and novel reason to concentrate on inflation risks more than on on the globe this year well unfortunately that's all we have time for thank you very much for joining us out zander thank you. and let's take a look at the markets. european stocks are trading higher as markets await the

release of q u.s. non-farm payroll data later in the day the footsies being supported by gains in mining utilities and banks while a broker upgraded lifts shares of william morris and supermarkets and in other news the russian based coproducer cox group has postponed its i.p.o. in london due to market conditions the group price is offering at six dollars and twenty five cents to eight dollars per share last month. and russian markets climb for a third day this week energy majors are the early gainers as oil is trading above one hundred dollars a barrel in london amid political unrest in north africa and the middle east. and all cynical and spare banks are both down over one third percent this hour rosneft however has added over two percent on both horses after the oil giant said that its third quarter profits have climbed twenty one percent from the previous three months. and the russian company has also posted a net profit of ten point six five billion dollars in two thousand and ten

a sixty four percent increase year on year beating analysts expectations according to the u.s. accounting standards russia's largest oil company has also reported in fourth quarter jump in profit while its overall debt fell twenty six percent the improved results were mainly attributed to increased output tighter cost control and rising oil prices meanwhile brosnan's president eduard no child has denied that his company is negotiating to buy out a our stake in russia british joint venture b.p. . and russia's to begin selling grain from state reserves in a move to curb food prices as support domestic markets the plan is to sell two and a half million tons of grain within five months of the next harvest the state's current stockpile stands at nine and a half million tons authorities banned cereal in for six months ago following the country's worst drought in fifty years that devastated the harvest industry watchers say prices have now started to stabilise thanks to the positive outlook on

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